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A whistlestop tour of SSIS add-ins
Jamie Thomson
There are a number of 3rd party add-ins available that may aid your SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) development. In this session I will demonstrate some of them.
Achieve SQL Server 2008 High Availability and Disaster Recovery - technical case study
Satya Jayanty
Achieving application uptime of 99.99% is not an impossible task, can be accomplished if you apply right procedures at right time!
An introduction to Master Data Services
Ian Marritt
Master Data Services is a new product due for release with SQL Server 2008 R2. This presentation will explain why you may want to use it and what it will help you achieve and some of the challenges you may face.
Building cubes from ODS or Operational Systems
Vincent Rainardi
A step-by-step demo on BIDS of how to build an SSAS cube (DB) from an operational system (normalized database) such as Operational Data Store (ODS) or directly from the transactional business system, without building a star/snowflake schema Data Warehouse/Mart first.
Cache-warming strategies for Analysis Services 2008
Chris Webb
Learn how the Analysis Services cache works, and how you can pre-load it with data to ensure optimal query performance.
Common Integration Services Problems
Allan Mitchell
Common Integration Services Problems and Solutions
Creating High Performance Spatial Databases
Alastair Aitchison
So you heard about the new spatial functionality in SQL Server 2008, rushed back to your database and added geography and geometry columns to all your tables, eager to create the next Google Earth-beating application. You then click the Execute button and wait. And wait. And wait some more. (You get the idea). Spatial data is a rather unique beast, and designing efficient spatial queries requires specific techniques when compared to other, more traditional types of data. In this session, we look at how the SQL Server database engine satisfies spatial queries, the theory behind spatial indexes, demonstrate the effects of altering the bounding box, use the spatial system DMVs and stored procedures to your spatial database
Data & Backup Compression in SQL Server 2008
Andre Kamman
The new compression features built into the Enterprise Edition of SQL Server 2008 should use less disk space and, perhaps even more important, speed up your system because of reduced disk IO. In this session we will : Take a look behind the scenes to see how it works. Investigate what commands / tools we can use to set it up and maintain it. Look into some examples of my own day to day experience that I collected so far. I aim to give an overview of both data compression and backup compression AND some Lessons Learned.
Data Visualisation with Bing Maps for Enterprise
Matt Feltham
Has the way you present your data become a bit bland? This session will take you through how combining your location based data on a map using Bing Maps for Enterprise(previously Virtual Earth) can add an interactive edge to the visualisation of your data.
Data Warehouse on a Fast Track forwards
Anthony Howcroft
Explore the Fast Track Data Warehouse appliances from HP & Microsoft with case studies, implementation thoughts, and roadmap.
Data warehousing features in SQL 2008
James Rowland-Jones
Data warehousing features in SQL 2008
Designing for simplification
Rob Farley
Allowing the query optimiser do its job of simplification is an important feature if any database design. In this session, Rob takes us through ways that a database design can leverage features of the query optimiser such as redundant joins and end up with a system the provides a much simpler querying environment.
Designing I/O systems for SQL Server
Thomas Kejser
In this session we will take a deeper look at how SQL Server uses I/O and how you can design the I/O system to meet the requirements of your applications.
Excel - An Excellent Data Mining Tool
Allan Mitchell
Using Excel as a Data Mining client is a very good move. Very visual and very easy to use.
Getting Dimensional with Data
Chris Testa-O'Neill
This session will introduce you to the core components required to set up and create a cube in SQL Server Analysis services. consideration is given to SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 to be considered for Friday
I need my reports..........Yesterday!
Chris Testa-O'Neill
Due to feedback from previous SQLBits conferences, this session will focus on the management of the reports and report server once the reports have been created to be considered for Friday
Introducing Project Madison
Thomas Kejser
In this presentation, I will introduce the Madison architecture and provide a roadmap with major milestones for this product
Introducing SQL Server Master Data Services
Donald Farmer
An introduction to SQL Server Master Data Services
Introduction of MS StreamInsight
Rob Farley
StreamInsight is Microsoft's technology for Stream Data Processing and Complex Event Processing (CEP). In this session you will get an overview of what CEP is, what problems it tries to solve and how StreamInsight tries to do it.
Introduction to the Microsoft BI Technology Stack
Dr John Tunnicliffe
John will introduce you to Analysis Services 2008, demonstrate browsing cubes with Excel 2007, deploying dashboards in SharePoint built using Excel Services and demonstrate how PerformancePoint Services can add the glitz to your BI project.
Let's make SQL fly - a technical session for developers and administrators who believe in magic!
R Meyyappan
In this session we will analyze and resolve a real world SQL Server Performance issue. We will first identify a customer's query performance issue and understand the reason for the non optimal performance of their application. After understanding the limitations it will of course be natural to invent and perform non TCO increasing magic to make SQL Server really fly. We will also provide few words of caution for those who might abuse the newly acquired magical powers. This deep dive, no fancy power point show is equally designed for developers and administrators. If you are one of those who would rather perform the magic on your own laptop than just observe it being demonstrated, send me an email so I can send you the demo scripts to prepare yourself for the adventure.
Lets go more functional - F# WHAT , WHY and BI
Ashwani Roy
F# supports functional programming, object-oriented programming, and imperative programming. It is new langauge out of MS-Research and very closely resembles oCaml.
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2: What's New in Reporting Services
Donald Farmer
WHat's new in Reporting Services
Optimistic Concurrency Internals
James Rowland-Jones
Learn all about Optimistic Concurrency and how it works under the hood in this one hour session.
Powershell - old tricks for a new dog?
Martin Bell
We all have tried and tested methods of doing things, but may be this new dog will help you do those old tricks?
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Put Your Feet Up : Simplified Management using the Enterprise Policy Management Framework
Martin Cairney
Wouldn't you rather spend your day learning all the funky new features in SQL Server 2008 than running all your daily checks over your instances? SQL Server 2008 introduced Policy Based Management which allows a fine-grained level of configuration and control of the instance's properties. The Enterprise Policy Management Framework takes this and extends it out to allow you to manage SQL 2000 and 2005 instances through policies as well.
Real World SQL Server High Availability
Thomas Pullen
The advantages, disadvantages, pitfalls and benefits of the various High Availability options in SQL Server.
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Report Builder 3
Andrew Fryer
What can it do for me?
Self Service Business Intelligence- Project Gemini
Bob Duffy
Microsoft Project Gemini brings data modelling and Business Intelligence in the hands of the end user - good or bad. This session demonstrates how to build and deploy an end to end business intelligence solution with project Gemini.
Server consolidation with SQL Server
Justin Langford
Planning and design considerations for running a SQL Server consolidation project.
SQL 2008 Development Features
Simon Sabin
SQL 2008 Development Features
SQL Injection Attacks (and how to prevent them)
Colin Angus Mackay
In this talk Colin Mackay will show you what a SQL Injection Attack is, what they look like, how they work and most importantly how to defend against them.
SQL Server 2008 - Unstructured Data Storage Solutions and Best practices
Satya Jayanty
Storage of large volumes of unstructured data - build a strategy by following best practices.
SQL Server optimization stuff you won't find on Google (yet)
Andre Kamman
Henk van der Valk from the Unisys performance lab will be my special guest for this session. He has a test system that we all would like to have at home. The ES7000 has 96 Cores and half a Terabyte of RAM yes RAM (!). We will look at various ways to push SQL Server workloads by methodically detecting and resolving bottlenecks.Together we will show you how you can apply this approach on mid-sized and even smaller systems. (We'll even try some of them on a laptop, and of course we will remote connect into the big machine ) In this session you will: Learn how to measure what the next bottle-neck is,using perfmon and waitstats. Hear about optimization tips that will get the most out of your hardware to speed up your processsing.
SQL, NoSQL, SomeSQL - A look at non-relational databases
Simon Munro
Some people are attempting to unseat the dominance of teh SQL RDBMS. What are the NoSql databases? Are they a threat? Do they actually work? What do they look like? This session contains some answers and offers a context for where non relational databases fit into the picture.
SQLDataSources, LINQDataSources and EntityDatasources in Database Design
Andrew Couch
In this talk we will contrast and compare developing WebForm applications using Visual Studio 2008 with different types of datasources. We will be looking at design issues relating to concurrency control and updateability when using key Visual Studio controls such as the FormView and ListView controls. So if you don't know where to start in choosing between SQL, LINQ and Entity datasources then you will by the end of this talk. We will also take a look at techniques for the seamless integration of ASP.net security with SQL Server Login security for web applications using LINQ.
SSIS in SQL Server 2008
Allan Mitchell
A look at some of the things that make using SSIS in SQL Server 2008 a very good choice for your ETL requirements
Strapped for cache? - Troubleshooting memory problems in SQL Server 2008
Christian Bolton
Learn the terminology, architecture, features and best practices that can help you understand, troubleshoot and avoid memory problems in SQL Server 2008.
The R2 Duo: Running SQL Server 2008 R2 on Windows Server 2008 R2 Core
Andrew Fryer
In this session we will cover 3 new enhancements to the Database Engine. Application and Multi-Server Management introduces new capabilities for managing, monitoring and exploiting your SQL Server Infrastructure through the new SQL Server Control Point and enhancements to SSMS and Policy Based Management and Data-tier application packages. SQL Connection Plans allow you to logically refer to an application in connection strings rather than servers making migration of database applications across your SQL Server infrastructure much easier. Unicode compression in R2 enhances the native data compression capabilities introduced in SQL 2008 for Unicode data using SCSU (Simple Compression Scheme for Unicode Data)
T-SQL Tuning with Colin Chapman, Enzo Ferrari, and The Stig
Brent Ozar
Making your T-SQL fast isn't really all that different from building and driving race cars. Learn lessons from racing icons that you can apply right away in your databases.
Using Perfmon and Profiler
Brent Ozar
Got a slow application or server, and not sure where to start? Brent will explain how to use the two most popular free tools and how to read their results.
Virtualising SQL Server
Justin Langford
This session provides details on approaching a SQL Server virtualisation project.
Vital Statistics
Christian Bolton
In this session I will be exploring the role that statistics play in query optimization covering how and when they are created, what they look like, how they are updated, and what scenarios will benefit from you creating them yourself.
What's new in R2 for the DBA
Jasper Smith
In this session we will cover 3 new enhancements to the Database Engine. Application and Multi-Server Management introduces new capabilities for managing, monitoring and exploiting your SQL Server Infrastructure through the new SQL Server Control Point and enhancements to SSMS and Policy Based Management and Data-tier application packages. SQL Connection Plans allow you to logically refer to an application in connection strings rather than servers making migration of database applications across your SQL Server infrastructure much easier. Unicode compression in R2 enhances the native data compression capabilities introduced in SQL 2008 for Unicode data using SCSU (Simple Compression Scheme for Unicode Data)
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When a query plan goes wrong
Simon Sabin
This session looks at some of the common scenarios when query plans can go wrong leading to your performnce suddenly hitting the wall. We will talk through what happens, why it happens and ways in which you can avoid it happening.
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'Breaking Bad' is ending run still looking good
NEW YORK - The supply is running low and you know there won't be more. "Breaking Bad" stands to leave its fans reeling.
For five seasons of wickedness this AMC drama has set viewers face-to-face with the repellant but irresistible Walter White and the dark world he embraced as he spiraled into evil. With the end imminent (Sunday at 9 p.m. EDT), who can say what fate awaits this teacher-turned-drug-lord for the havoc he has wreaked on everyone around him.
This is more than the end of a TV series. It's a cultural moment, arriving as the show has logged record ratings, bagged a best-drama Emmy and even scored this week's cover of The New Yorker magazine.
Up through the penultimate episode, "Breaking Bad" has been as potent and pure as the "blue sky" crystal meth Walter cooked with such skill. Judging from that consistency in storytelling and in performances by such stars as Bryan Cranston (Walter White), Aaron Paul (his sidekick Jesse Pinkman), Anna Gunn (who just won an Emmy as Walt's wife) and Betsy Brandt, the end will likely pack unforgiving potency.
But one thing is dead sure: It will be beautiful.
"Breaking Bad" has often been described as addictive, and if that's so, the look of the show is its own habit-forming drug. Michael Slovis, the series' four-times-Emmy-nominated director of photography, has been cooking up that look since the series' sophomore season.
"I go for the emotion in the scene, not to overtake it, but to help it along," said Slovis over a recent lunch in Manhattan. "With 'Breaking Bad,' I recognized very early that I had a story and performances that could stand up to a bold look."
The action is centered in Albuquerque, N.M., which invites sprawling desert shots and tidy manicured neighborhoods; washes of light and jagged sun-drenched expanses.
The look of the show makes the most of its setting, and also the technology by which viewers see it: In an age of digital video, with the smallest detail and the sharpest resolution visible to the audience, Walter's battered mobile meth lab could be clearly discerned as a speck against a vista of deserts and mountains. A doll's disembodied eyeball bobbing in a swimming pool had chilling vividness.
And don't forget the show's visual signature: "Breaking Bad" was never afraid of the dark.
Slovis recalls how, his first week as DP, he was shooting in Jesse's basement.
"Jesse and Walter are down there cooking meth, and I turn off all the lights and turn the back lights on. There's smoke and shafts of light coming through the basement door and I go, 'This is what I came to do!'"
"We have some interesting extremes in lighting, thanks to Michael and his fearlessness," said "Breaking Bad" creator Vince Gilligan from Los Angeles. He invoked the fancy artistic term for this, "chiaroscuro," which means the use of strong contrasts between light and dark.
"'Breaking Bad' has become known for beautiful bold lighting," he said, "and Michael became an indispensable part of the 'Breaking Bad' equation."
The imagery of "Breaking Bad" is second-nature to its viewers, whether or not they are conscious of Slovis' work. So when they swoon at the beauty of the desert outside Albuquerque, they may not know the complexion of this badlands was created in his camera.
"The desert on the show has a tonality that doesn't exist in real life," he said with a laugh. This color is achieved with a so-called "tobacco filter" clamped on the lens. "I don't pay much attention to reality when I light or even when I shoot exteriors. But nobody questions the color, because it becomes part of the storytelling."
You would have a hard time finding many stylistic links between "Breaking Bad" and some of Slovis' other credits, which include "CSI" (for which he won an Emmy), "Fringe," AMC's short-lived noir thriller "Rubicon," and lighter fare including "Running Wilde" and "Royal Pains." (Nor his additional credits as a director, which range from four episodes of "Breaking Bad" to "Chicago Fire" and "30 Rock.")
Instead, he said he strives to let each project suggest its own look.
Now 58, Slovis is soft-voiced and lanky, with a head whose baldness rivals Walt White's in Heisenberg mode.
He got the photography bug while growing up in Plainview, N.J., where he became the school photographer and won a state photography contest. He was invited to study at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
He imagined himself a fine-arts photographer but he loved movies and storytelling, and, after graduate school at New York University, he landed jobs shooting music videos and commercials, then got nibbles from feature films.
But in 2001 he found movie offers drying up, and, though he had never seen TV in his future, he gratefully accepted a call from the NBC series "Ed."
The timing was terrific. For decades, TV's hasty, assembly-line production schedule proved an obstacle to giving a series its own visual style.
"Film had been just a way to record the TV picture," Slovis said. A further barrier to getting too creative was the low resolution and squarish shape of the old TV receivers, which conversely had a negative impact on theatrical films, whose wide-screen format was forced to conform (with lots of medium and close-up shots) to movies' eventual small-screen telecast.
Slovis hails pioneering exceptions such as "Twin Peaks," ''Law & Order" and "The X-Files," and credits "CSI" as "one of the first times that cinematography became a real character on a show. TV began changing around us."
Gilligan agreed that "the advent of flat-screen TV really allowed Michael's work to shine in a way it wouldn't have, 20 years ago."
Now the end of "Breaking Bad" is nigh. But through Sunday's final fade-out, Slovis' influence will remain, capturing the "Bad" times you can't turn your eyes from. He's a series star who's out of sight, yet controlling what you see.


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A good friend emailed me a link yesterday with some Moroccan Shavuos' customs and explanations. I found them fascinating. I believe you will too, gentle reader, especially after master photographer – former Chairman of Fashion Institute of Technology's Photo Department – Irving Schild, graciously allowed us to use two of his photos, taken during a recent trip to Morocco with the Manhattan Sephardic Congregation:
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20) We have the minhag to save masot from Pesah, and on Shabu'ot they would crush them and mix them with milk and honey and after Shaharit of Shabu'ot they would eat this. We use milk and honey because they are compared to the Tora as Hazal say (Shir haShirim 4:11) "Debash vehalab tahat leshonekh" – "Honey and Milk under your tongue." So as milk and honey linger in your mouth, so too the Tora should constantly linger on your tongue. See more in Midrash Shir haShirim 11, Noheg beHokhma p.202, Nahagu ha'Am p.106, Yahadut haMaghreb (Shabu'ot), and Shemo Yosef Siman 143 by Ribi Yosef Benoualid zs"l, 1907.
21) On Shabu'ot we make a special dish called in Arabic "lhrabel" made from masa meal, sugar and mint, and they would form this mixture into long ovals to eat after Shaharit (see below for an example and the recipe found on www.dafina.net). This also corresponds to what is written "debash vehalab tahat leshonekh," – "Honey and milk under your tongue" and this is why we eat more sweet foods than normal on Shabu'ot, in honour of the Tora and its misvot. See Osrot haMaghreb (Shabu'ot).
22) Many have the tradition to prepare a cooked food from the intestines of a cow [T.N. they would use it as casing for a sort of sausage called in Arabic 'Lkrisa] in honour of Shabu'ot. It was known that this was one of the tastiest meals, so they made it in honour of theHag. Also, Hazal tell us that half of the hag should be dedicated to Hashem (i.e. Tefila and studying Tora) while the other half to ourselves, (i.e. eating and singing) so they ate this dish for 'oneg – enjoyment of the hag. See Osrot haMaghreb (Shabu'ot).
[On the first day of Shabu'ot some, especially those from Mogador, have the custom of making l'Ada – Lintria (wide pasta, tagliatelle) with pieces of lamb and fried onions with raisins.]
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Why Hillary got it right
Leave it to Barack Obama's own former secretary of state to acknowledge the fatal flaw of his foreign policy: a total absence of strategic thinking.
Mind you, Obama does deploy grand words proclaiming grand ideas: the "new beginning" with Islam declared in Cairo, the reset with Russia announced in Geneva, global nuclear disarmament proclaimed in Prague (and playacted in a Washington summit). Untethered from reality, they all disappeared without a trace.
When carrying out policies in the real world, however, it's nothing but tactics and reactive improvisation. The only consistency is the president's inability (unwillingness?) to see the big picture. Consider:
• Russia
Vladimir Putin has 45,000 troops on the Ukraine border. A convoy of 262 unwanted, unrequested, uninspected Russian trucks with allegedly humanitarian aid is headed to Ukraine to relieve the pro-Russian separatists now reduced to the encircled cities of Donetsk and Luhansk. Ukraine threatens to stop it.
Obama's concern? He blithely tells The New York Times that Putin "could invade" Ukraine at any time. And if he does, says Obama, "trying to find our way back to a cooperative functioning relationship with Russia during the remainder of my term will be much more difficult."
Is this what Obama worries about? A Russian invasion would be a singular violation of the post-Cold War order, a humiliating demonstration of American helplessness and a shock to the Baltic republics, Poland and other vulnerable U.S. allies. And Obama is concerned about his post-invasion relations with Putin?
• Syria
To this day, Obama seems not to understand the damage he did to American credibility everywhere by slinking away from his own self-proclaimed red line on Syrian use of chemical weapons.
He seems equally unaware of the message sent by his refusal to arm the secular opposition (over the objections of Secretary of State Clinton, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and CIA Director David Petraeus) when it was still doable. He ridicules the idea as "fantasy" because we'd be arming amateurs up against a well-armed government "backed by Russia, backed by Iran (and) a battle-hardened Hezbollah."
He thus admits that Russian and other outside support was crucial to tilting the outcome of this civil war to Bashar al-Assad. Yet he dismisses countervailing U.S. support as useless. He thus tells the world of his disdain for the traditional U.S. role of protecting friends by deterring and counterbalancing adversarial outside powers.
• Gaza
Every moderate U.S. ally in the Middle East welcomed the original (week 1) Egyptian cease-fire offer. They were stunned when the U.S. then met with Qatar and Turkey, Hamas' lawyers, promoting its demands. Did Obama not understand he was stymieing a tacit and remarkable pan-Arab-Israeli alliance to bring down Hamas (a branch of the Muslim Brotherhood) — itself an important U.S. strategic objective?
The definitive evidence of Obama's lack of vision is his own current policy reversals — a clear admission of failure. He backed the next Egyptian cease-fire. He's finally arming the Syrian rebels. And he's returning American military power to Iraq. (On Russia, however, he appears unmovably unmoved.)
Tragically, his proposed $500 million package for secular Syrian rebels is too late. Assad has Aleppo, their last major redoubt, nearly surrounded. If and when it falls, the revolution may be over.
The result? The worst possible outcome: A land divided between the Islamic State (IS) and Assad, now wholly owned by Iran and Russia.
Iraq is also very little, very late. Why did Obama wait seven months after the IS takeover of Fallujah and nine weeks after the capture of Mosul before beginning supplying the Kurds with desperately needed weapons?
And why just small arms supplied supposedly clandestinely through the CIA? The Kurds are totally outgunned. Their bullets are bouncing off the captured armored Humvees the Islamic State has deployed against them. The Pentagon should be conducting a massive airlift to provide the peshmerga with armored vehicles, anti-tank missiles and other heavier weaponry.
And why the pinprick airstrikes? The IS-Kurdish front is 600 miles long, more than the distance between Boston and Washington. The Pentagon admits that the current tactics — hitting an artillery piece here, a truck there — will not affect the momentum of IS or the course of the war.
But then again, altering the course of a war would be a strategic objective. That seems not to be in Obama's portfolio.
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A search is on for an Upper Darby, Pa., woman who allegedly threatened to bite her neighbor's face off and kill her and her child. An arrest warrant has been issued for Ashley Burch, 28, in connection with the incident that allegedly took place Saturday morning. She is facing charges including terroristic threats, assault and harassment. Burch's live-in boyfriend, James Himes, is in Delaware County prison after police, serving the warrant on Burch, found him unresponsive after allegedly huffing computer dust cleaner for several days. Police were called to the victim's home for a domestic dispute at 11:02 a.m. Saturday. The responding officer found Burch and her mother arguing outside of the house. Burch left in her mother's car, but not before threatening the victim and her daughter. 'I'm going to bite your face off,' Burch allegedly yelled to the victim as she was driven off in her mother's car. The victim told police Burch had harassed her on a regular basis. She was visibly shaken and said she feared for her safety and the safety of her daughter. An arrest warrant for Burch was obtained, but when police went to her home to serve her with the warrant they didn't find her. Instead they looked through a window and saw Himes unresponsive on the couch with a can of computer cleaner in his hand, according to the affidavit of probable cause for his arrest. Despite numerous attempts to awaken Himes, he remained unresponsive, police said. To ensure his safety, police entered the house. Himes allegedly sat up and threw the can of cleaner across the room. Himes allegedly was incoherent and admitted to huffing the computer dust cleaner for several days straight, according to the affidavit. While checking the residence, police found that a burner on the stove had been left on, near several other cans of computer dust cleaner, creating a hazard. He was taken into custody on charges including recklessly endangerment. Bail was set at 10 percent of $10,000.
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The Nationals racing presidents continued a three year old tradition on Thursday by appearing in The Washington Ballet's annual production of Septime Webre's The Nutcracker.
The racing presidents took the stage one at a time to perform ballet's famous Russian Dance, with Teddy Roosevelt making the final entrance and of course drawing the loudest applause from the partisan crowd.
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Happy Hanukkah!
Sorry that I've been neglecting this blog, but things have been busy and it seems there's always something to do. In the past few months, we sold our condo (thankfully!), moved into a new (well, a rehabbed 100-year-old) house in Chicago, transitioned to a new neighborhood after 20 years in the old 'hood, and changed our daughters to a new school.
Things are settling down now, and we are enjoying Hanukkah in our new home. And while Hanukkah may mean candles, dreidels and gifts to the kids, it means potato latkes to me.
Many homemade and store-bought latkes contain flour or matza meal. However, since the amount of flour is small, it's pretty easy to adapt latkes to be gluten-free. If you're looking to buy latkes, Kineret frozen potato latkes do not contain gluten.
This year, my family concurred that my latkes were the best ever. I used three russet potatoes and one sweet potato, which added a golden orange color and hint of sweetness. After I grated the potatoes, I let them sit in a colander to drain extra liquid. And I used potato starch instead of flour. Don't listen to people who claim you have to hand-grate the potatoes; a food processor works just fine.
Even if your arteries harden at the sight of a thick layer of oil in a frying pan, don't be stingy with the oil. To make the latkes brown and crisp, you need a generous layer of oil covering the bottom of the pan. Keep the pan hot to prevent the latkes from absorbing too much oil, but not so hot that you set off the smoke alarm.
Enjoy the remaining days of Hanukkah!
Gluten-Free Potato Latkes
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- 3 medium baking potatoes, peeled
- 1 medium sweet potato, peeled
- 1 medium onion, peeled
- 3 eggs, beaten
- 1/4 cup potato starch
- 1 teaspoon coarse kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1/8 teaspoon baking powder
- Canola oil
- Using the top shredding disc on a food processor, grate the baking potatoes, sweet potato and onion, alternating grating the potatoes and onion to prevent the potatoes from darkening. Transfer the potato mixture to a large bowl, change to the bottom chopper blade on the food processor, pour half of the potato mixture back in the food processor bowl and pulse just a few times to end up with shorter bits of potato instead of long strands.
- Transfer potato mixture to a colander or strainer to drain for 5 to 10 minutes. Squeeze out as much additional liquid as you can by pressing down on the potatoes with paper towels.
- Place strained potatoes in large bowl, and mix in eggs, potato starch, salt, pepper and baking powder. If the mixture seems very loose and watery, add a bit more potato starch.
- Pour canola oil into two frying pans, so that there's ¼ inch of oil covering the bottom of each pan; heat over medium-high heat. To test if oil is hot, sprinkle in a drop of water; if the water sizzles then the oil is ready. Drop large spoonfuls of potatoes into the pan. Flatten pancakes slightly with spatula and fry until golden brown on the bottom, then flip and cook the other side. The smaller the latkes are, the crisper they will be. Repeat with remaining potato mixture.
- Place the latkes on a paper-towel-lined cookie sheet to drain excess oil. Keep them warm in a 250-degree oven while you make additional batches.
- Serve hot with applesauce and/or sour cream. For a healthier twist, use nonfat plain Greek yogurt instead of sour cream.
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Blessed feast of Mary, Mother of God, merry octave of Christmas, and Happy New Year! Here is my homily for today, recorded during the 4:00PM Vigil Mass at St. Ann's in Gloucester.
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The Situation of Cupid's Arrow
Posted by The Situationist Staff on February 11, 2008
This week, on NPR's Living on Earth, Steve Curwood spoke with anthropologist Helen Fisher of Rutgers University to find the science behind love at first sight and happily ever after. Fisher is the author of several books, including her most recent, "Why We Love: The Nature and Chemistry of Romantic Love." We've included a few excerpts below. To read or listen to the entire interview, click here.
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CURWOOD: You call your book "Why We Love.". . . Tell me please about your research on this topic.
FISHER: I have a theory that we've evolved three distinctly different brain systems for mating and reproduction. The sex-drive being one, that craving for sexual gratification. The second is romantic love, that obsession, the craving, the ecstasy, the focused attention, the motivation to win a particular mating partner; that early, intense romantic love. And the third brain system is attachment, that sense of calm and security that you can feel with a long-term partner.
I decided that I had already written quite a bit about the sex drive, and actually I'd written quite a bit about attachment. So I began to think to myself, 'well, you know, this is probably the most powerful experience on Earth, romantic love, and maybe I could get some people into a functional MRI brain scanner and see if I can't find out what happens. What the chemistry actually is of this experience.'
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What we did is we put – I and my colleagues – put 32 people who were madly in love into this brain scanner. Seventeen who were madly in love and their love was accepted, they were happily in love; and 15 who were, had just been dumped, they had just been rejected in love. But both groups were intensely in love.
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. . . . I had hypothesized that we would find evidence for elevated activity of the dopamine system and the norepinephrine system. These are natural stimulants in the brain; they give you feelings of elation, giddiness, euphoria, focused attention, motivation, heightened energy, sleeplessness, loss of appetite. These are basic characteristics of romantic love. So I thought we would also find low activity of serotonin because low activity of serotonin is associated with obsessive compulsive behaviors, and certainly the main characteristic of romantic love is you can't stop thinking about this individual. It is an obsession. So that was my hypothesis as I went in.
What we ended up finding is activity in this ventral tegmental area in a region that actually makes dopamine and sends dopamine to many brain regions. We did not find activity of norepinephrine, but I really think that that's also involved. We just haven't found it yet; it doesn't mean it's not there. The reason I think norepinephrine will be involved is because it's norepinephrine that gives you what they call the sweaty palms syndrome: the pounding heart, the dry mouth, the sweaty palms. The kind of things that happen when you're really incredibly in love with somebody and don't know yet whether they love you.
CURWOOD: So romance is as important as eating? drinking? breathing?
FISHER: Well, it can be stronger . . . . I think that romantic love evolved for a very fundamental reason.
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I think it evolved to enable us to focus our mating energy on just one individual at a time, thereby conserving mating time and energy and starting the most important thing we'll do with our lives, which is forming a pair bond and raising, creating a child. I think the sex drive evolved to get you out there looking for a whole range of partners. I mean, you can have sex with somebody you're not in love with. And I think that attachment, that third brain system, that third drive, evolved to enable us to tolerate this individual, at least long enough to rear a child together.
So I think these three different drives – the sex drive, romantic love, and attachment – all are operating in all kinds of combinations to direct our reproductive lives. And you asked me, is this more important than eating and drinking? Sure. It is.
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CURWOOD: What about the sex drive? What are the chemicals there? Are they different from romance chemicals?
FISHER: The main chemical of the sex drive is testosterone, in both men and women. In fact, you know, you inject testosterone in any kind of animal and sex drive goes up. And the brain system is different, too. I mean, there's at least five brain scanning studies of the sex drive, and the various brain regions involved are – they overlap, but they're different from those regions associated with romantic love. So there's two different systems. But they interact, and that's what's so interesting to me.
For example, you know, when you fall in love with somebody, suddenly that person becomes enormously sexually attractive to you. Three weeks ago it was just a nice, another nice person at the office or in your social circle or at the gym. But suddenly everything they do becomes attractive to you. And I think that it is in part because elevated activity of the dopamine circuits associated with romantic love trigger testosterone and trigger the sex drive. So this is why it is that you suddenly become almost, you know, totally fixated sexually on somebody who you're in love with.
What I find most remarkable about these three drives – the sex drive, romantic love, and attachment – is that they're often unconnected. You can feel a powerful sense of attachment to a long-term partner while you feel intense romantic love for somebody else, while you feel this sex drive for a whole range of people. So this is what gets the human animal in so much trouble.
CURWOOD: I bet. Now, let's go back to lust, or the sex drive, and romance. You say that romance can kindle the sex drive. What about the other way around? Can lust lead to romance?
FISHER: Not always, of course. You know, most liberated adults have copulated with somebody who they never fell in love with. In fact, they would have liked to have fallen in love with them and couldn't do it. But it certainly can happen, and it can happen I think in part because with orgasm there's a spike of dopamine – it just shoots up and shoots down again. And that I think can help change the threshold for your ability to fall in love and just turn you over that edge. Also with orgasm you get a real flood in the brain of oxytocin and vasopressin, and these are the chemicals associated with attachment.
So, casual sex isn't always that casual. As a matter of fact I think women are more vulnerable than men are because, as it turns out, seminal fluid has in it all the chemicals in it for the sex drive, the testosterone and estrogen; oxytocin and vasopressin, associated with attachment; and dopamine and norepinephrine, associated with romantic love. So a man is actually doing some chemical finagling when he deposits his sperm. So, you know, casual sex can be casual, but generally it's not.
CURWOOD: Now, you also said that you looked at people who had just been jilted or dumped or crushed.
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FISHER: . . . . [T]hey did the same experiment. You know, they would look at a photograph of their sweetheart and they would also look at a neutral photograph. We found a lot of things, but among the things that we found is we found activity in a brain region, the insular cortex, where other experiments have shown that this particular region is associated with physical pain in the skin and muscles. Not just psychological pain when you're rejected, but physical pain.
We also found activity in a brain region called the nucleus accumbens. It's a brain region, this particular part of the nucleus accumbens is associated with risking, taking big risks. Actually gambling, gambling for money. Taking big risks for big gains and big losses. And, of course, that's what you do when you've been rejected, you're just willing to do just about anything to win this person back.
And then we also found activity in a brain region near the front of the brain called the lateral orbital frontal cortex. And this brain region, this particular part of the cortex, is associated with three things. Obsessive and compulsive behaviors, and of course you obsessively think about this person. With controlling anger, and that's one thing that happens when you get dumped, you get angry, most people do.
And last but not least, this is a brain region associated with what scientists call a "theory of mind." And what theory of mind is is when people do it, probably much more than other animals, projecting yourself into another person's shoes and thinking, 'What is he thinking about? What is he doing? What is he planning? He's thinking about this or that.' That's theory of mind, and that's what happens when you get rejected. You feel physical pain, you're willing to take huge risks, you're constantly wondering what this other person is thinking, you're obsessively thinking about them and you're trying to control your anger.
CURWOOD: What is the secret of making love last? I mean, can you tell us what you've found about this?
FISHER: I want to say, first of all, that there's very nice data that in long-term attachments you can make love last. That, indeed, if it's a very good relationship there often is a continual thread of romantic love in the relationship as well as deep attachment to the person. . . .
But, anyway, one of the ways to sustain romantic love in a long-term marriage is to do novel, exciting, slightly dangerous things together. Because novelty drives up the activity of dopamine in the brain. This is why vacations can be so exciting. Just doing something new.
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For a previous, related post, see "Crazy Little Thing Called Love." To watch an 8-minute video interview of Helen Fisher about her researsh, click on the video below.
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Maybe it's a sign of the times, but agriculture land prices in St. Joseph County continue to climb.
Assessor Dale Hutson told Fawn River Township officials Monday that sales in Leonidas Township have topped $8,600 per acre.
In Mendon, agricultural land has sold for $8,000 an acre this year.
Ag land in other areas of St. Joseph County has been selling for $7,500 per acre.
Hutson brought a computer printout of 2012 property sales in Fawn River Township for the board to review. In Fawn River, one sale for $1.3 million was recorded.
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Fawn River officials are also looking into Michigan's Right to Farm Act to learn the definition of intensive livestock operations.
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If you are friends with me on Facebook, you might have noticed Rick posting that our bees were swarming. However, I am happy to report, the bees weren't swarming after all. They were bearding.
Honey bees regulate the temperature of their hive pretty well. In the winter they use their wings and bodies to keep the hive warm and in the summer they keep it cool by fanning their wings. If it is really hot, they cool the hive by fanning their wings to create air currents that evaporate water droplets. And if it's just burning up, the adult bees go outside to cool themselves and get the hive temp to drop so the brood (the baby bees) don't end up honey roasted.
Bearding happens when the bee hive is either too full or too hot, or sometimes both. It is typical bee behavior in the last summer. But I know for a fact that our hive is full, and this weekend was pretty hot, so the bees spent a few evenings on the outside of the hive cooling down.
Here they are at 8:00 pm last night. See them all around the entrance:
And here is the hive at 8:00ish this morning.
Last night I took a video. Video is not my forte, but I thought it was really cool. Bear with the shakiness of the camera. I just got back from a three day road trip to help my sister move and C didn't sleep the entire trip, so neither did I. In other words, look past the crappy film job. 😉
Again, we are bee amateurs… very much beginners. But I wanted to share as we learn too. I'm excited that on Wednesday, a friend is coming to help me harvest honey. It will be our first time; I hope to get lots of pictures of that process! And I actually think the bees will be happy to have a little more wiggle room in the hive.
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Britney Spears and fiancé Jason Trawick have split, Spears' rep confirmed to People.
"Britney Spears and Jason Trawick have mutually agreed to end their one-year engagement," her rep said. "As two mature adults, they came to the difficult decision to go their separate ways while continuing to remain friends."
Added Spears: "I'll always adore him and we will remain great friends."
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Congratulations to this weeks Design Team Top Picks! Thank you to all that took the time to participate in the Paper Craft Crew Challenges. Your regular participation provides the design team with encouragement and we enjoy seeing your creations based on the weekly card sketch. Cards are listed in no particular order.
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Afghan vets reunited in NY with 8 battlefield dogs
PORT JEFFERSON STATION, N.Y. - Army reunions have been held as long as soldiers have been going off to war, yet a reunion this week was perhaps like no other in history.
National Guard soldiers from New York who befriended a stray dog while on patrol in Afghanistan were reunited with the 65-pound mixed breed and her seven rambunctious puppies after the animals arrived at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Wednesday.
The reunion was made possible by the efforts of a Long Island pet rescue organization whose motto is: "Paws of War - No Buddy Left Behind."
"They really became part of the family to us," 1st Lt. Joseph LaPenta of Staten Island said. The soldiers befriended the dog they called Sheba after arriving in Afghanistan in January. She sometimes joined them on patrol, chasing away other stray dogs that may have threatened the soldiers, they said.
In March, Sheba had a litter of seven puppies. Because Sheba was weakened from the births, they nursed her and the puppies back to health, feeding her their allotment of beef jerky and MREs - Army issued "meals ready to eat." Later, relatives sent bags of dog food from home.
Soon, however, the soldiers learned their base would be closed as part of the U.S. draw down in Afghanistan.
"It really broke our hearts that we might have to leave them there" LaPenta said.
That's when Staff Sgt. Edwin Caba of Long Beach sprang into action and contacted an old high school teacher. She put him in touch with a Long Island group called Guardians of Rescue, which has for several years collected donations to bring dogs back from combat zones. They had rescued about 20 when the request came in for help getting Sheba and her pups.
"We won't turn our back on the servicemen and we won't turn our back on the dogs," said Guardians of Rescue president Robert Misseri. Working with a private Kabul-based organization called Nowzad, the groups arranged to have the dogs sent to the United States so they could be adopted by the soldiers.
Misseri estimates it costs about $4,000 for every dog rescued from a war zone. He said an online crowd sourcing fundraiser is still collecting money to pay for Sheba and her pups. The money is needed to pay for transportation and other logistics, including health care for the dogs - they are quarantined for 30 days and given all their vaccinations before being sent.
The effort appeared to pay off Wednesday night when the dogs and the soldiers arrived at the Save-a-Pet animal shelter on Long Island to celebrate the reunion.
"For this to happen now, leashes in their hands, they're kissing their faces," Misseri said with amazement. "This is what we do."
The puppies, already six months old and about two feet tall, are named Cadence, Rocky, Sarah, Jack, Buckeye, Breezy and Harris. Two soldiers are taking two dogs each, and three others are going home with one dog apiece. Most will stay in New York; two are headed for the Cincinnati area.
Sheba's future is still being assessed, said Dori Scofield, vice president of Guardians of Rescue, who is caring for the dog at her Port Jefferson Station animal shelter. There is hope Sheba may someday be trained as a service dog to work with veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome, although Scofield said it is too soon to know if Sheba would qualify for such training.
Caba, whose home was destroyed in Superstorm Sandy, said the dogs helped divert his attention from his troubles at home; he has just completed his third tour of duty in Afghanistan.
"It's nice to have something to pass the time, get rid of the stress," he said. "We just a built a bond you can't even describe."


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If opening day at Nationals Park was any indication, it's going to be a wild and exciting year on South Capitol Street.
A sellout crowd turned out Thursday afternoon to watch Gio Gonzalez pitch a gem in his Nationals Park debut, capped by a walk-off extra-innings Nationals victory that moved the team into sole possession of first place in the NL East. With the team having seemingly turned a corner, Teddy Roosevelt fans were hoping the Nats might use the occasion to finally Let Teddy Win.
In a surprise move, the Nationals moved the presidents race to the left field/third base line and out of reach of the Nats bullpen, protecting the race against a repeat of last season's attempted interference by players on Teddy's behalf.
Roosevelt made a third inning appearance on the Nationals Park scoreboard with professional wrestler CM Punk. The clip showed the two sneaking up on Teddy's napping opponents behind the centerfield wall, tying their shoelaces together, and then sneaking off (video below).
When the race began in the middle of the fourth inning, Teddy's rivals George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln immediately tripped on their shoelaces and tumbled onto the warning track.
Roosevelt took off, hopping and skipping around the left field corner on his way to the finish line.
But the quick-thinking Jefferson was on his tail, running barefoot and carrying the shoes he slipped off as soon as he had discovered the scheme.
TJ caught Teddy as they approached the finish line, holding out his sneakers to break the tape and steal the first presidents race of 2012.
As for their move of the presidents race to the opposite side of the stadium, the Nats have so far been mum; but after the game, outspoken Teddy supporter Jayson Werth expressed his displeasure once again with the conspiracy.
"What's the poor guy got to do to get a win?," Werth said. "A great American president. Just a great American, period."
An informal survey of fans in the stands suggested that season ticket holders are not happy with the move either.
The presidents have built a loyal cheering section along the right field and first base lines, home to the Nats' largest season ticket base. All eyes will be on the field for the fourth inning Friday to find out if order will be restored.
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I have to add an update (already) on the FI8908W that I presented earlier, and this time, there's good news for Linux, Mac and Firefox users! (corresponding firmware for fi8909w-NA and fi8903/04w here)
Since people at Foscam already proved very responsive, I sent them another question about the chances to see some support for non-ActiveX browsers in a future firmware.
While I expected something like "sorry, this is not planned for this product", the actual answer was:
"Here is an updated firmware with server push mode (for Firefox, chrome an such) and also the method to directly intercept the video stream into VLC"...!!!
To the reply was attached a newer firmware 126.96.36.199 and Web UI 184.108.40.206 to replace the original 188.8.131.52 and Web UI 18.104.22.168
The control interface is similar to the operator interface of the ActiveX version presented earlier (no visitor section, so, no sound control and no multi-device support), but this time, it's platform independent!
I only started to play with the new interface today, but here are some possibilities already:
Loading the live view directly:
Taking a snapshot from the camera (convenient when accessing from a mobile phone):
Loading the stream into a media player such as VLC:
Below is the updated verdict:
+ Good set of features
+ Good image quality day and night
+ Responsive technical support
+ Platform Independent, Linux friendly, Apple friendly, Mobile Phone...
+ Video stream can be intercepted into VLC
- UPnP still not usable
- Poor embedded speaker quality
A word of caution about non-Foscam clones and firmware update:
I became aware that some ip cameras exactly similar in look to the fi8908w are using a totally different firmware. Their fw cannot be flashed on Foscam and Foscam fw cannot be flashed on them. This would instantly turn your device into a paperweight.
With recent feedback, it appears that the cameras sold by DealExtreme are not specifically from Foscam. On eBay, it's also a mix and if you are lucky, the seller will show some screenshots of the interface on his page.
If the interface of your camera looks like any of these:


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PHOTOS: Miss USA 2013 Contestants
Miss Illinois Stacie Juris was second runner up. The woman from southwest suburban Tinley Park competed Sunday in the 62nd annual Miss USA pageant.
Juris is a junior at Columbia College, where she is studying fashion. About 40 of her family members planned to be in the audience Sunday night in Las Vegas to cheer on Juris as she competes for the title.
Moments after she was crowned at the Planet Hollywood hotel-casino on the Las Vegas Strip Sunday, Connecticut accountant Erin Brady said all she could think about was letting her bosses know she won't be coming in tomorrow. Or ever again.
As her family and fiancee looked on, Brady beat out other beauties from every U.S. state and Washington D.C. to take the title, accepting the crown from outgoing queen Miss Maryland Nana Meriwether.
She wore an orange bikini with a matching halter-top as she strutted to the Jonas Brother's "Pom Poms." Later, she donned a strapless gown with a spangled golden corset and long white train.
In the pageant's final minutes, she answered without hesitation a question about the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to uphold widespread DNA tests.
"If someone is being prosecuted and committed a crime, it should happen. There are so many crimes that if that's one step closer to stopping them, then we should be able to do so," she said.
Miss Utah, meanwhile, apparently stumbled in response to a question about income disparity, providing a rambling, halting answer included an invocation to "create education better."
As Miss USA, she will live in a swanky Manhattan apartment and travel the world raising awareness about breast cancer, but Brady has an additional goal of her own: Helping children cope with the effects of drug and alcohol abuse, which have marked those close to her.
"I grew up in a family influenced by that and I think it's really important to help the children of families that are suffering from those problems," she told The Associated Press.
Her father Francis said he always knew his math-oriented daughter was a glamour girl. She and her sisters used to strut around and pretend they were beauty queens.
Her sister Audrey, 20, said with tears in her eyes that her grandmother, who was watching from home, would orchestrate the pretend shows.
"She'd be like, 'Prance around the pool like Miss America.'"
The family was taken by surprise two years ago when Brady announced she would be entering the Miss Connecticut competition, but they cheered her on.
"She just went up there on a whim, man. But it was like, 'Just go for it. There should be more people like you who are competing, where it's not all about the hair and the makeup, but personality too,'" Audrey said.
Brady told The Associated Press that she hopes her background will help dispel negative associations held by some toward pageants.
"I think that now more than ever, they're accepting that we're all intelligent individuals and that it's really not a stereotype," she said.
Unlike the rival Miss America pageant, Donald Trump's Miss USA doesn't ask its queens to perform a talent or choose a charity mission.
As suspenseful music played on Sunday night before the winner announcement, Brady held hands with first runner up Mary Margaret McCord, of Alabama. McCord could be seen saying, "I love you." Miss Illinois Stacie Juris was second runner up.
Two of the six judges' questions on Sunday touched on the controversial data-collection programs run by the National Security Agency brought to light earlier this month.
In both cases, the queens took an unconcerned attitude. Miss South Carolina said the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden who leaked the information should not be charged with treason. Miss Alabama said the programs did not bother her.
Beaming fiancé Tony Capasso said he advised Brady to compete without makeup.
The Central Connecticut State University finance major will represent the U.S. at the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow this winter. Last year's Miss USA, Olivia Culpo, won that international crown, becoming the first Miss USA to ascend to Miss Universe in 16 years. Brady said she is determined to pull of the feat for the U.S. again.
For the next few days, though, she's just hoping to unwind with a routine that sounded not very different from her training regime: hitting the gym and getting in her beauty sleep.
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Patriots Lose: Justice Restored!
Posted by Jon Hanson & Michael McCann on February 5, 2008
In case you hadn't heard, the New England Patriots played their worst game of the season last night. A team that had savored, not merely defeating, but blowing out their opponents failed in their quest for perfection. For at least a little longer, the 1972 Miami Dolphins will hold onto their place in NFL history as the last team to end a season with a perfect record.
For Pats fans, like us, last night's defeat was as shocking as it was untimely. And, really, who in their right mind would have thought that the Giants would win? Sure, some of the Giants players and die-hard fans were confident (or at least claimed to be), but the folks betting in Vegas certainly weren't: the Pats were favored to win by 12 points. It sort of reminds us of another big and recent Super Bowl upset: the up-start and "lucky" Patriots defeating the allegedly indomitable St. Louis Rams back in 2002 in Super Bowl XXXVI. That one felt good, though.
But, if sports bloggers and commentators are to be believed, perhaps we should take heart. Apparently, much more is revealed by the outcome of this football game than simply the fact that Belichick's boys are not the best team in the history of the sport. The team's lackluster performance allegedly proved something far more important than that.
According to these commentators, by losing the Super Bowl in nail-biting fashion, the Patriots revealed that behind imperfection is a deeper and more affirming perfection: the universe is just.
One blogger writes: "We all saw something inexplicable, incredible and possibly supernatural when Eli Manning completed a spellbinding drive with a TD pass to Plaxico Burress with 35 seconds remaining."
Consider the evidence.:
The Patriots got busted for cheat[ing] during the first game of the season, and when the season came down to it, after Asante Samuel drops an interception that would have ended the game, Eli Manning miraculously escaped the grasp of 200 Patriots pass rushers and heaved a prayer over David Tyree's head that he pinned against his own helmet and kept from hitting the ground as his body nearly split in two at the waist. If you were rooting for the Patriots, as I was, when that play happened you said to yourself, "uh oh."
And another asks:
Who ever heard of a helmet-catch? What kind of a play was that where Eli Mannning escaped from the grasp of several Patriot pass-rushers, and then tossed the ball downfield so his receiver could catch it on his helmet? Is that normal? Well, not according to the receiver, David Tyree, who said about the play, "This was all supernatural."
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As Josh Alper explains: "If you're a karmic sort, . . . you can't help but think the Patriots did their fair share to help [the Giants] along." So, no, this was no mere coincidence. It wasn't luck. And it wasn't exactly skill either . . . . This was divine or cosmic intervention intended to even the scales of justice. Writing for the Denver Post, Mark Kizla is downright giddy about the game's implications:
The only thing that left the Super Bowl undefeated was karma. For everyone who believes in truth, justice and a great American underdog story, the New York Giants kicked New England in the asterisk with a stunning 17-14 victory. Talk about your perfect ending. Sorry, Pats. Cheaters never prosper.
The 18-0 Patriots lost because they deserved to. In the end, writes another blogger, "[i]t was a team not worthy of perfection." In a post titled "Karma Kicks Patriots In The Butt," Madhava Gosh lays out the case this way:
Early in the season, [the Patriots] were caught videotaping the defensive signals of their opponents in a game. This is illegal and considered cheating. The results of the game were let stand, but the coach was fined 1 million dollars and the Patriots lost a draft choice in the 2008 draft.
Now, it seems to me, that the perfect season up to the Super Bowl was simply Krishna setting them up, as karma for their cheating, for the ultimate pain — losing not only the Super Bowl but the chance at a historical 19-0 season.
If you wanted to cause the team an enormous amount of pain for the cheating, what better way than to let them get so tantalizingly close. They had the lead with only 2 minutes left in the game, and then victory was snatched from their jaws by the Giants' game winning miracle drive.
Anyone who has played in a meaningful game knows what the pain of defeat can be, and in this case it was amplified to a huge degree.
The cheating was nectar in the beginning that became poison in the end . . . . Karma is inexorable.
Just like that, the poison of losing a football game is transformed into the sweet nectar of justice. As Kizla puts it: "Karma won. The Patriots lost. No matter how you pour it, there's nothing so sweet as the taste of justice."
Yet another commentator sums up the karma effect as follows: "The Bradshaw fumble, holding penalties, false starts, running up the score, Spygate and yes, even the tuck rule from years ago finally caught up to the Patriots. They had a great regular season but at the end of the day, Karma bit the Pats in the ass!"
And still another describes the "karmic payback" this way:
If there was any moment that summed up why the Patriots deserved to lose this Super Bowl, it was Bill Belichick deciding not to remain on the field for the final second of the game.
It was a classless move by a classless coach, but there was also much more to it than that. It was a microcosm of the entire Patriots season. Because . . . the truth is that this year's Patriots team, and their fans, pushed the envelope like no team ever has before. And in the end, it came back to nail them in crushing fashion.
Just as the single moment was a microcosm for the season, the football season is a microcosm for life. So take heart Patriots fans. Take heart Giants fans. Take heart everyone! What goes around, comes around. If not sooner, then sometime later—perhaps even in the final seconds of the last quarter of the ultimate contest—good will triumph over evil.
Or so the human animal likes to believe.
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For previous posts on the magic of sports, see "The Unlucky Irish: Celtics Fans and Affective Forecasting," "Red Sox Magic," "March Madness," and "Think you've got magical powers?." For posts discussing the motive to justify the system, see "Ideology Shaping Situation of Vice Versa," and "Thanksgiving as 'System Justification.'" For a post discussing the system-justifying role of rooting against the expected winner, see "Cheering for the Underdog."
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Pro&Con: It was senseless to invade nations with tribal factions opposed to democracy
Our withdrawals from Iraq, and now imminently from Afghanistan, are not the reason that we find ourselves dealing with governments in both these countries that are not doing as we think they should.
We are learning the hard lesson that while our military can remove an existing government, we cannot dictate what will replace it. It is a lesson with huge immediate implications, because in recent days we are hearing new rumblings about a possible military intervention in Syria.
In Iraq, President George W. Bush apparently gave little thought to what might replace the government of then leader Saddam Hussein.
In 1991, when his father, President George H.W. Bush attacked Iraq over its occupation of Kuwait, he was urged by some in Congress to expand the operation to attack the capital city, Baghdad, and remove Saddam Hussein from power.
Wisely, he knew that such action would open a can of worms. Under Saddam Hussein, power rested in the hands of the Sunni community, a minority within Iraq. The majority Sh'ia community was resentful over its treatment at the hands of Saddam Hussein. Removal of Saddam Hussein would upset the existing order.
What was not difficult to see in Iraq was the likelihood that any new government in Iraq would be dominated by the majority Sh'ia community, and that it might redress its grievances in a way that would leave the country in turmoil.
So when we see current Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki tilting toward the Sh'ia, that is the result of the dynamic we set up with our invasion of Iraq in 2003.
The Sunni in Iraq are reacting now with violence. Whether we are there with troops or not, that dynamic is playing itself out. Iraq experiences inter-communal violence on a daily basis.
Nor was it difficult to guess that a Sh'ia-led government in Iraq would be on good terms with the government of Iran, with which we are perennially at odds. So by invading Iraq, we were bolstering support in the region for the government of Iran.
In Afghanistan, we removed a government headed by the Taliban. Afghanistan, as was known at the time, houses a variety of ethnic constituencies. It has no history of a country-wide political order.
Now the warlords who ruled small fiefdoms in Afghanistan are making a comeback. One of them may wind up as the next president in elections to be held soon. We are having trouble convincing Hamid Karzai, the current president, to let our troops remain in some numbers past the end of 2014. We want to keep Afghan courts from having jurisdiction over any offenses that may be committed in the future by U.S. personnel there. Karzai rejects this demand.
In both instances, our initiation of military operations — Afghanistan in 2001, Iraq in 2003 — could have been avoided. In Afghanistan, our demand on the Taliban — that it turn over Osama bin Laden and his associates — was not pursued. The Taliban was beginning to respond to our demand, but instead we invaded.
In Iraq, there was even less reason to send our troops. We invaded because, we said, Iraq was preparing mass-destruction weapons to use to attack us. That reason was quickly shown to be implausible.
So in both Afghanistan and Iraq, we took military action that could have been avoided but which had predictable consequences that were negative both for the target country and for ourselves.
And this does not include the thousands killed, maimed, or otherwise wounded among our own forces and among the populations of those countries.
Now we have to live with the political reality in both Iraq and in Afghanistan. We are leaving both countries in shambles. If we don't like the governments we see, we have no one to blame but ourselves.


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